Device for registering printers&#39; forms.



No. 764,163. PATBNTED JULY 5, 1904, W. J. TAPLIN. DEVICE FOR REGISTERING PRINTERS FORMS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1904.

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

IVALTER J. TAPLIN, OF ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES B. GARDNER, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHU- SETTS.

DEVICE FOR REGISTERING PRINTERS FORMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,163, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed May 13. 1904. Serial No. 207,818. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER J. TAPLIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Arlington, in the county of Middlcsex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Registering Printers Forms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for regulating printers forms for the purpose of obtaining an accurate register of all descriptions of such, and is constructed in such a manner that by its use pages, plates, or cuts of all sizes and proportions can be locked up in one and the same form, either work-and-turn, sheetwise, or any other layout for obtaining a perfect register.

The invention is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a top plan view of my device shown in use as applied to a chase and type pages set up therein. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 shown in Fig 1, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

"Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The device consists of a preferably metal blade or bar A, having parallel dovetailed grooves a a on its face or upper side and also provided with side grooves a a on its opposite sides, as shown. ably connected a series of lateral or cross gages B B, arranged independently adjustably on opposite sides of the blade or bar A, as shown. In practice I provide the inner end of each gage B with a lip B, fitting on top of said plate or bar and provided on its under side with a dovetailed guide-rib b. fitting into the corrcspondingly-shaped grooves a on the upper side of the bar A, so as to permit said gages B to be adjusted in a direction parallel to the bar A and held at a right angle thereto and secured in position after adjustment by means of set-screws C O or equivalent fastening devices.

On said blade are slid b is a projection on the inner end of each gage B, which is guided in the side groove a on the blade A, as shown.

The opposite sides of the bar A are graduated to picas and points to the standard printers measure, as shown. One side of the gages B are also likewise graduated in a similar manner.

In the drawings, D represents a chase of any ordinary size for use in locking type-pages E E E and F F F and furniture Gr Gr, as usual.

In using the device the type-page E is located at one corner of the case by means of furniture, as usual. The end gage B of the device is then placed up against one side of such type-page and the blade A against the end of and at-right angles to the latter. The successive gages B in the series are then adjusted upon the blade A according to the positions in which the various type-pages are to be located, and after being so placed and adjusted the form is locked up with the furniture and suitable well-known locking devices used in the art.

The device can be so set that duplicate forms can be locked up so as to assure an accurate register of any number of forms following each other in the art of book or pamphlet printing.

When it is desired to adjust smaller typepages E to register with larger ones, I use an auxiliary gage H, adjustable upon the crossgages B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The said auxiliary gage H is adapted to be secured to the cross-gage B by means of a set-screw It or equivalent fastening device after adjustment.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is l. The herein-described device for registering printers forms consisting of a graduated blade A and graduated independently-adjustable cross-gages B, B arranged on opposite sides of such blade and means for securing the latter in position on the blade after adjustment substantially as described.

2. The herein-described device for register- In testimony whereof I have'aflixed my siging printers forms consisting of a graduated nature in presence of two Witnesses. blade A and graduated independently-adjust- WALTER J TAPLIN able cross-gages B, B arranged on opposrte 5 sides of such blade and an auxiliary gage H Wvitnesse's:

adjustable on one or more of the gages B sub- ALBAN ANDREN,

FRANK HINE.

stantially as and for the purpose set forth. 

